HOW TO MAKE YOUTUBE BUMPERS

There have been a few questions about creating the YouTube
Bumper videos.... In a nutshell:

1. Select and edit the image you want to use for the bumper background. You do this step in The Creator. You can leave the black place holder images or delete them.

2. Open your video editing software, I use VSDC Free editor, for what you need to do "Microsoft Movie Maker" will not work. You must have a video editing tool that handles "composting" or layering.... there are lots free things out there...

3. Add your bumper graphic to the background in your new video. In most programs you do that via the "Add images / Videos" menu choice.

4. Select a video to add as a layer appearing over the the graphic.

5. Add other videos as needed.

6. Keep it short.

7. Export your bumper video in a format you can use / and save or upload: MP4, AVI, or WMV are the most popular formats.

8. Add that bumper video to the end of whatever video you want it to work with....

9. Save that combined video.

10. Upload that video to Youtube.

11. Once in Youtube: you can add the links "Captions" so that you can click on the videos in your bumper and be taken directly to the full video on youtube.

HERE IS A RUFF CUT UNEDITED BUMPER VIDEO:You will notice the black edges on the videothumbnails, That's because I did not edit the size of the placeholder boxes while using the Logo Creator.

HERE IS THE BUMPER VIDEO TAGGED ONTO THE END OF A VIDEO, LIKE THEY USUALLY ARE:
(I have not hyperlinked the thumbnail videos to their full versions on youtube yet)

HERE IS THE HYPERLINK TO THE VIDEO, WITH THE BUMPER AT THE END, AND ONE HYPERLINK TO A SILLY DOG VIDEO!

HERE IS WHAT THE YOUTUBE INTERFACE LOOKS LIKE WHERE YOU ADD ANNOTATIONS, HYPERLINKS, ETC....

You can also create a bumper in the new video creators...video maker fx, easy sketch pro and explaindio and put the created video into windows movie maker then add you video. As a matter of fact with the newest versions you dont even need windows movie maker at all. you can simply create the bumper portion of the video export it (so you can use that part over and over for branding purposes) then add whatever video content you need.